Quotes About Choices

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

Everything good or bad that has occurred in my life has been predictable and inevitable, especially the choices and actions that have made sure I am now utterly alone.

Tudo de bom ou de ruim que aconteceu na minha vida foi previsível e inevitável, sobretudo as escolhas e ações que garantiram que eu viesse a estar agora absolutamente sozinha.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it.

the fact that you'll never know what sort of person you might have been if you'd read different stuff

It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers, the people, the common man, prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

When you have a child, you will do anything for her. You may not do it well, but you will kill yourself trying. You will trip over obstacles as you clear them out of her path. You will give her the choices you didn't have.

What did you say to the people who had given you life, when you were about to intentionally throw that gift away?

Never ask your child a open-ended question, such as Do you want to go to bed now? You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed? That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people have children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

This year in school she read Romeo and Juliet, and she told me pragmatically that Romeo was a wimp. He should have just taken Juliet and run away with her, swallowed his pride and worked at some medieval McDonald's. What about the poetry, I asked her. What about the tragedy? And Rebecca told me that that's all very well and good but it isn't the way things happen in real life.

Entre uma boa acção e uma má acção existem mil tons de cinzento.

There are three choices for a woman like me: 1) Be sad and lonely 2) Be the one who is cheated on 3) be the other woman

I wondered what the hell had convinced me to live at the end of someone else's life rather than live my own

I wondered how two boys - like Shay and me - could begin at the same point and somehow take turns that would lead us to be such a different men.

Maybe who we were in the past informed who we chose to be in the future.

Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or—in this case—feared might come to pass passed by instead

there is such a difference between living the life you are expected to live and living the life you want to live.

Did you ever wonder who you would have been, if you hadn't become who you are?

You have two ways to live your life," Dr. Hew

Clearly, it is difficult to eat healthfully in our crazy world, where it seems that everyone else is on a mission to commit suicide with food.

Eat some beans with every lunch. Among your choices are chickpeas, black-eyed peas, black beans, cowpeas, split peas, lima beans, pinto beans, lentils, red kidney beans, soybeans, cannellini beans, pigeon peas, and white beans.

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Diabetes is a food-created disorder, and the right food choices can rid you of this life-shortening disease and its associated medical complications.